Skin Care During Monsoon Time

Monsoon rains can bring havoc to our life, in the form of bacterial infections (Pyoderma), fungus infections, ring worm and athletes foot, Urticaria or the Hives, and photo allergy.
When you walk in the roads while it is raining, you expose you feet to the dirty water on the roads. Bacterial infections are very common on the feet. The manifest as various pyodermas and as infected eczemas.
As soon as you reach home you have to wash your legs and hands with clean water and an anti septic  like Dettol. Dry your legs with a towel particularly in between fingers and toes and keep them dry.
You should never neglect shoe bites and small wounds on your feet, that too particularly during the monsoon days. You are sure to get leptosphirosis as the open wounds will become the portals for infection.
Due to high humdity, you are sure to get excessive sweating and that might prove a reason for fungal problems in the skin folds like armpits, under the breast, groin etc, they  can bring on ringworms and other candidal infections. So always keep the area dry and use talcum powders to keep them dry.
Urticaria is due to allergies and so try to avoid things which might cause allergies to you. Mostly avoid sea food during monsoon if you can. High humidity can make sensitive skin break out in rashes so be careful and use moisturizers to avoid them.

Daily Care

We have to take care of our face daily to keep the skin of our face shining and glowing with health. It needs more attention because it has more oil glands especially the centre forehead, eye areas, nose and chin.

For that, one has to perform a brief morning care for facial skin and a longer regime in the night, before going to bed. Follow this to get a glowing, healthy and a blemish free skin.

You have to cleanse, tone and moisturize twice daily. Once in the morning after you get up and once in the night before going to sleep.

Morning care

Daily in the morning, while taking bath do not use harsh soaps for your face. Use either mild glycerin soaps or gentle and purifying face wash. Wash it off with cold water and blot out the excess water with the towel. Do not rub hard at your skin.

Apply cleansing milk to your face and using upward motions massage it in slightly. Clean with a piece of cotton wool or a wet sponge.

Apply either rose water or tonic on to your face to close the pores . You can also apply icecube for this purpose. If your skin is oily use astringent. Toning the skin helps you to clear the residual cleansing mik or lotions and hidden dirt.

Then, apply the moisturizer evenly onto your face. Now your face is ready for makeup.


Evening care

Start the same way by washing your face with face wash or a glycerin soap. Then take some scrub into your palm or a small bowl, add kasturi turmeric to it and mix well.

Apply nicely on to your face and scrub with soft, circular motions. Do not scrub hard. Just slightly is enough since you are doing it daily. Then wash it off with water . Apply rosewater and leave your face to breathe through the night.

What you are doing is to exfoiliate the dead cells of your skin by scrubbing it lightly. If your skin is very sensitive do this scrubbing twice or thrice a week.

If your skin seems very dry after scrubbing apply oil ( coconut oil or olive oil) to your face before scrubbing or apply moisturizer after scrubbing.

Under eye cream is a must in the night before you to sleep. Apply the cream liberally under the eyes and leave it till morning.

This sort of care daily will get you a clean, nice and healthy skin and you would not have to worry about your blemishes at all. You'll be blessed with a shiny and glowing face , with which you can be very proud of.


Always Remember, never go to bed with your makeup on. It'll clog the pores and prevents the skin from breathing . This will result in bad skin health and blemishes on the skin.

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